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>Some major benefits &#38; features of PostNuke are:</P
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>Site structure, design, editing, and the submission of site content can be separated for easy administration of material;</P
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>Sites are scalable, so many people can contribute to a PostNuke site/community;</P
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>PostNuke is the first CMS to be rated as "<A
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>Sites are flexible, there are great default features included in PostNuke and these can be easily altered, extended, or modified;</P
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>Site development is Open Source (collaberative code) allowing robust, modular, consistent, security- and standards-aware feature-rich software with a number of support options;</P
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>Completely Database-Driven Site Engine (<A
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>Extendable Through The Use of Third Party Modules;</P
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>Powerful Security Module for Multi-level User/Administrator Logins;</P
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>Fully Editable and Manageable News, Links, Downloads, FAQ, and Services Sections;</P
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>Customizable Layouts - <SPAN
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>Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting Booth for On-The-Spot Results;</P
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>News Feed Manager  - Access to over 1,000 news feeds;</P
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>Banner Ad Manager - Sell Advertising on your site;</P
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>Site Statistics indicates Browser &#38; Operating System, Top News and Articles;</P
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>Distribute workload using the Users/Administrators Manager;</P
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>Easy Install on any Unix including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX, Solaris, AIX, SCO, and most Windows operating systems including Win98/NT/2000/XP.</P
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